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God has promised salvation to Adam by covenant, and that He would
deliver him out of all the hardships that have befallen him--but has
not promised me by covenant, and will not deliver me out of my
hardships; no, since He has promised him that He should make him and
his descendants live in the kingdom in which I once was--I will kill
Adam.

8 The earth shall be rid of him; and shall be left to me alone; so that
when he is dead he may not have any descendants left to inherit the
kingdom that shall remain my own realm; God will then be wanting me,
and He will restore it to me and my hosts."

Chapter XLVIII - Fifth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve.

1 After this Satan called to his hosts, all of which came to him, and
said to him:--

2 "O, our lord, what will you do?"

3 He then said to them, "You know that this Adam, whom God created out
of the dust, is the one who has taken our kingdom, come, let us gather
together and kill him; or hurl a rock at him and at Eve, and crush them
under it."

4 When Satan's hosts heard these words, they came to the part of the
mountain where Adam and Eve were asleep.

5 Then Satan and his host took a huge rock, broad and even, and without
blemish, thinking within himself, "If there should be a hole in the
rock, when it fell on them, the hole in the rock might come over them,
and so they would escape and not die."

6 He then said to his hosts, "Take up this stone, and throw it flat on
them, so that it doesn't roll off them to somewhere else. And when you
have hurled it, get away from there quickly."

7 And they did as he told them. But as the rock fell down from the
mountain toward Adam and Eve, God commanded the rock to become a dome
over them*, that did them no harm. And so it was by God's order.

8 But when the rock fell, the whole earth quaked with it**, and was
shaken from the size of the rock.

9 And as it quaked and shook, Adam and Eve awoke from sleep, and found
themselves under a dome of rock. But they didn't know what had
happened; because when the fell asleep they were under the sky, and not
under a dome; and when they saw it, they were afraid.

10 Then Adam said to Eve, "Wherefore has the mountain bent itself, and
the earth quaked and shaken on our account? And why has this rock
spread itself over us like a tent?

11 Does God intend to plague us and to shut us up in this prison? Or
will He close the earth over us?

12 He is angry with us for